The Trump administration is set to take the almost unprecedented action of stripping Harvey Milk’s name from a Navy ship, a ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to rename the ship that honors Harvey Milk, a former sailor who later became the first openly gay man elected to office in California, defense ...

Baritone Michael Kelly, who sings the title role, believes that staging this opera and remembering Milk as a civil rights icon is particularly ... One pink. One yellow. They overlap, as I do.’ ...

After he was assassinated in San Francisco City Hall in 1978, he became an icon of the gay rights movement, with images of his face becoming synonymous with the struggle for gay rights.

WASHINGTON − The Navy will rename an oil tanker that named after slain gay rights activist Harvey Milk, U.S. officials told Reuters on Tuesday, the latest move in the military under Defense ...

Some historical icons are worth remembering because they were extraordinary people who did extraordinary things. Milk should be remembered for his ordinariness. His story is a rallying cry ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to take the rare step of renaming a ship, one that bears the name of a gay rights icon, documents and sources show. Military.com reviewed a ...

The Harvey Milk is an oiler ship in the John Lewis-class. It’s part of a group of ships named after civil rights activists. Lewis was a congressman and civil rights icon who passed away in 2020.